Georgia’s Athens The Georgia Bulldogs lose their home-court rematch against the Florida Gators despite leading the entire first half. The Bulldogs, who are currently 14-11 and 4-8 in the conference, are on a 6-game losing run, with this defeat not being their most recent. In the SEC, the Gators are now 18-7 and 8-4.
UGA arrived and unleashed a ferocious first half. With 17:44 remaining in the half, the Bulldogs had completed a 10-4 scoring run following their tip-off victory. With 16:23 remaining, graduate student guard Noah Thomasson led the Bulldogs to a 16-9 lead after scoring 10 points in the opening four minutes. With 13:34 remaining, Georgia carried on its aggressive play to give the Dawgs their largest lead of the game, 11 points. This high was quickly lowered to four
points by a 7-0 Gator run, which was initiated by senior guard Zyon Pullin’s three-point shot. With 10:33 remaining, Georgia increased their advantage to 9 once more, but UF responded by cutting the margin to 2 (down 29-31) following
Opening up the second half, UF added to the scoreboard first with a three-pointer from junior guard Walter Clayon Jr.; graduate student center Russel Tchewa responded for the Bulldogs with a jumper to make it a 48-43 game. Florida tied up the score for the first time in the game, 48-48 with 18:40 left, after a brief 5-0 scoring run. Junior guard R.J. Melendez gave Georgia its final lead (50-48) of the game with two consecutive made free throws. The Gators took their first lead of the game with a jumper from freshman forward Alex Condon
